Sebastian Stan Defends Against Recent Attacks on Marvel

Originally posted on Men's Journal | By Griff Griffin | Last updated Oct 9, 2024 2:00 PM ET

Sebastian Stan is hitting back against Marvel critics in a recent interview.

The long-time Marvel actor, who’s set to reprise his role as Bucky Barnes in Thunderbolts, doesn’t agree with detractors, and says cinema would be a worse place without Marvel.

“I’ve never been part of a company that puts so much heart and thought into anything,” he tells GQ. “I think if Marvel was gone, it’d be such a big hole to try and fill up. Don’t just go out there and s*** on something without offering something better.”

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Stan debuted in the MCU with 2014’s The Winter Soldier, so he’s as invested as anyone in Marvel’s future. That’s not to say he’s not tested the waters elsewhere. The actor stars as Donald Trump in the former US president’s controversial biopic, The Apprentice, a role which lingered with him afterwards.

“I went off to Marvel after [The Apprentice],” Stan says. “And we were doing scenes, and I would do something, a thing or two, and be like, ‘F***! This is still living somewhere.’”

The Apprentice releases October 11, 2024. It comes a week after another of Stan’s esoteric performances in A Different Man, an A24 production in which he plays an aspiring actor with a rare genetic condition manifesting in facial disfigurement.

This article first appeared on Men's Journal and was syndicated with permission.

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